Milan Travel Guide

 
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  •   Castello Sforzesco
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  •   Duomo
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  •   Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
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 Bustling city with good nightlife and cultural activities 


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 A business destination, thus expensive. 


In a nutshell

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 Sophisticated but not stiff - efficient and accommodating 

 

Explore Milan

Things to Do  

Duomo

Duomo, Milan

 202 Reviews  Milan's main city square came about as an urban renewal project in the early 1300s when Lord Azzone Visconti ordered the destruction of numerous taverns surround the city's two main churches. The resulting space became a market square, later enlarged to become the center of life in Milano that it... 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan

 98 Reviews  Designed and constructed by Giuseppe Mengoni, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II was opened for business in 1877. The four-story mall consists of two glass-vaulted arcades which intersect at what amounts to a grand central courtyard. The galleria is situated immediately between two additional... 

Hotels  

Hotel Principe Di Savoia

 7 Reviews and 363 Opinions  One of Milan's best hotels, Principe di Savoia is housed in a Belle Epoque-style building. Though... 

Park Hyatt Milan

 2 Reviews and 351 Opinions  The worse hotel I ever stayed. My mum, my sister and myself were robbed inside our hotel room. The... 

Restaurants  

Street food, general, recipes....

Street food, general, recipes...., Milan

 14 Reviews  La Raclette: in the Navigli area this is a medium expensive restaurant where they serve this typical swiss-french fused-cheese dish; give it a try drinkin' 'Greco di Tufo' white wine. Osteria Le Vigne: again in the Navigli area this not so formal 'osteria' is quite ok with wide wines selection and... 

CIAO (Italian fast-food)

CIAO (Italian fast-food), Milan

 5 Reviews  One of the biggest problems you'll have as a tourist in Italy is to find somewhere to eat between the lunch hours and the dinner hours. For some reason the italians seems to believe that the whole world is eating between 12 and 14, and then nothing until 19... They don't know me very well, that's... 

Nightlife  

Navigli

Navigli, Milan

 16 Reviews  We were trieing to find a place,where isnĀ“t disco-music,and you could sit down and have a drink outside.We just walked by,and happened to be Rolling Stones playing on the stereo,and we sat down.We ment to have one beer,but,it became one drink and two beer,when it was nice place to sit.Music was... 

Hollywood

Hollywood, Milan

 13 Reviews  I arrived in Milan a week ago and was keen to go out and explore the nightlife. Corso Como was the area i'd been hearing about so i headed out there with high hopes. It started to get busy at around 11.30pm, and I decided to pay the 20 euro to go into Hollywood, as i'd heard it was quite... 

Transportation  

Subway/Metro

Subway/Metro, Milan

 54 Reviews  I do love a good Metro and the one here in Milan has become one of my favourites. With only three lines this is a very easy Metro to navigate and the way the lines bend, loop and cross each other means that the whole city centre is comprehensively covered with nowhere being more than a couple of... 

Trains

Trains, Milan

 69 Reviews  Even though we initially arrived in Milan by air, we used the central train station on several occasions - going to and from Como, and on our departure for Padova (Padua). This Mussolini-era building and other train stations were an important part of our five week visit to Italy in which almost all... 

Shopping  

Fashion and leather

Fashion and leather, Milan

 37 Reviews  Milan is a magnet for fashion-buyers and designer labels. The Via Montenapoleone and immediate surrounds is the home of most of the great labels of the world, where you can virtually walk out of Dolce & Gabbana and into Versace and then onto Armani, and on ... and on ... and on. It's a beautiful... 

Clothes - not high fashion

Clothes - not high fashion, Milan

 20 Reviews  If you want to go shopping in the Duomo area and not spend a fortune, it looks as if Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is the best choice. Contrary to the Galleria of the same name, there are not many high fashion shops there, but more shops like Zara, footlocker, GAP and so on. I must admit that apart... 

Local Customs  

Dining and Drinking

Dining and Drinking, Milan

 24 Reviews  The custom of aperitivi is helpful when you're on a budget. Many of the bars in Milan, for the price of a drink, will give you food to go along with it. You can easily make it into a light dinner. For more details, see my Bar Magenta tip. 

Torino's Bull at the Gallery (to be squeezed)

Torino's Bull at the Gallery (to be squeezed), Milan

 7 Reviews  This bull is depicted in the coat of arms of Torino. You see that there is a hole on its genitals and may wonder why. Well, a tradition says that if you put your right heel on this hole and turn on yourself three times, this will bring you good luck. In the second photo you see my father do it... 

Warnings and Dangers  

Central Station

Central Station, Milan

 14 Reviews  I was actually on board a CE train from Milan to Bern. My 'carry on' bag was immediately above me. I went to get some reading matter from the case and it was "gone" As I exited the train to the platform a conductor/train manager walked past. As I was not speaking Italian he said he would not speak... 

Pick Pockets

Pick Pockets, Milan

 24 Reviews  I was travelling with my Wife on 12th July 2012 to Tremezzo by taking the Train from Milan Central Station to San Giovani,the Train Schedule was at 15.10,but was late for 15 minutes,our Wagon was No. 9 at the tail of the Train,the Platform was full of people,and We had to run for catching the Train... 

Tourist Traps  

The Duomo

The Duomo, Milan

 14 Reviews  Be very careful with guys who come up to you and thrust corn into your hands to feed the pigeons in from on the Dumo. Even though this makes a fantastic picture with the dones eating from your palm... they guys who give you the corn try to rip you off. They are you where you are from and ask to be... 

Shopping

Shopping, Milan

 5 Reviews  This is a special WARNING for all male visitors of Milan! There are two streets in Milan which you have to AVOID: first one MONTENAPOLEONE, and the second one Via della SPIGA! This two streets are probably the most expensive streets on earth. There are no prices at all in the shop-windows. DO YOU... 

Off The Beaten Path  

The Lake District: Como, Maggiore, Iseo, Lugano ...

The Lake District: Como, Maggiore, Iseo, Lugano ..., Milan

 15 Reviews  The city of Como on the shores of Lake Como is an easy day trip from Milan - a 45 minute train journey from Milano Cadorna station, with trains running regularly throughout the day and late into the night. It's a lovely city - the historic centre and cathedral, the many shoreline villas, ferries to... 

Churches

Churches, Milan

 19 Reviews  We just visited this church by accident! Arriving at the metro stop "Sant' Ambrogio", we did not know in which direction to go to get to Sant' Ambrogio, but we soon spotted a church close by and thought that this must be it. Only when we were inside and I got out my guidebook to read about the... 

Favorites  

San Siro Stadium

San Siro  Stadium, Milan

 13 Reviews  Even my reply is late for you, i think you might like to know what i'm going to say. Tickets for Inter games can be bought on line one week before the game, on the Internet: www.intern.it. You receive a kind of voucher which you have to print and when you go to the stadium, there are special places... 

The Duomo

The Duomo, Milan

 31 Reviews  In occasion of this visit to Milano, last week in July, I couldn't enjoy in magnificient front side of the Cathedral because it was under the major reconstuctions works. As far as I was told, this works will last a couple of years because the facade of the Cathedral is in a very bad... 

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